Another attempt at water skiing record

Tasmanian waterskiers are in the final stages of preparing for their 7th attempt on the world mass skiing record at Strahan on the state's west coast.

The group wants to break the record for the largest number of people towed behind a boat for one nautical mile.

The record was set at 100 in 1986.

The group's last attempt in January achieved 99 and organiser Greg Hind says they have been training hard for this weekend's attempt.

"We certainly learned a lot last time about how difficult it is to ski behind the Eagle," he said.

"In that period since then, we've been testing and training, knowing what those conditions are like and because we know what those conditions are like, we've been able to duplicate them for testing," Mr Hind said.

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